TY - JOUR
AU - Smith, Jason
AB -  The New Urban Renewal: The Economic Transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville , by Derek S. Hyra . The University of Chicago Press , Chicago, IL . 2008 . 214 pp . Separating himself from past research on urban renewal in large cities, Derek S. Hyra titles his book The NEW Urban Renewal for a reason. While urban renewal of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s focused on the removal of African Americans which benefited whites in large cities, Hyra suggests that the urban renewal of today is a benefit to middle‐ and upper‐income African Americans. Using both Chicago’s Bronzeville and New York City’s Harlem as his sampling points, Hyra brings attention to the new round of urban renewal where these neighborhoods, despite having concentrated poverty, are being transformed into “trendy and expensive living spaces” (p. 4). The book can be separated into three brackets that consist of an introduction to the topic (chapters 1–3), the impact of politics on these two communities (chapters 4–6), and how middle‐ and upper‐class African Americans are impacting the communities they are coming back to (chapter 7). The introductory chapters of this book are focused on the theoretical aspects of community change and the 
TI - The New Urban Renewal: The Economic Transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville
JF - Sociological Inquiry
DO - 10.1111/j.1475-682X.2010.00335.x
DA - 2010-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/the-new-urban-renewal-the-economic-transformation-of-harlem-and-zH3BEnteEg
SP - 324
VL - 80
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -